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198 PROSERPINA. 



English, Bog-Violet, or, more familiarly, Butterwort; and 



their French, as at present, GrasseMe. 



The families to be remembered will be only five, namely, 

 I n Pinguicula Major, the largest of the group. As bog 



plants, Ireland may rightly claim the noblest of them, which 



certainly grow there luxuriantly, and not (I believe) with us. 



Their colour is, however, more broken and less characteristic 



than that of the following species. 



2. Pinguicula Violacea : Violet- coloured Butterwort, (in- 

 stead of 'vulgaris,') the common English and Swiss kind 

 above noticed. 



3. Pinguicula Alpina : Alpine Butterwort, white and much 

 smaller than either of the first two families ; the spur es- 

 pecially small, according to D. 453. Much rarer, as well as 

 smaller, than the other varieties in Southern Europe. " In 

 Britain, known only upon the moors of Roschaugh, Rosshire, 

 where the progress of cultivation seems likely soon to efface 

 it. (Grin don.) 



4. Pinguicula Pallida : Pale Butterwort. From Sowerby's 

 drawing, (135, vol. in.,) it would appear to be the most deli- 

 cate and lovely of all the group. The leaves, " like those of 

 other species, but rather more delicate and pellucid, reticu- 

 lated with red veins, and much involute in the margin. Tube 

 of the corolla, yellow, streaked with red, (the streaks like 

 those of a pansy) ; the petals, pale violet. It much resem- 



name of the order lentibularece ; but it probably comes from lenticula, 

 which signifies the little root bladders, somewhat resembling lentils. 

 (3) 'Manual of Scientific Terms,' Stormonth, p. 234. 



/LentibulariacecBj neuter, plural. 

 (Lenticula, the shape of a lentil ; from lens, a lentil.) The Butter- 

 wort family, an order of plants so named from the lenticular shape 

 of the air-bladders on the branches of utricularia, one of the 

 genera. (But observe that the Buttenoorts have nothing of the 

 sort, any of them. R.) 

 London. " Floaters." 



Lindley. "Sometimes with whorled vesicles." 

 In NuttalPs Standard (?) Pronouncing Dictionary, it is given, 

 Lenticulareai, a nat. ord. of marsh plants, which thrive in water 01 

 marshes. 



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